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Stetson Steel LLCNew on the radar

ANAHEIM · Manufacturing

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Stetson Steel LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$4.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 38%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Sep 23 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Stetson Steel LLC looks over-valued against its niche peers and is active on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the manufacturing sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 2.26× the median modeled value of Seed Manufacturing companies in 2025–2027 (81 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Active
  • Last raise 9 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
  • Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Stetson Steel LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.

Issuer structure
Company-like
No recurring-offering pattern strong enough to override normal financing interpretation.
Lifecycle
0.8 yr record
Peak capital year was 2025 with $4.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 63% of Manufacturing peers
Capital scale is ahead of 63% of Manufacturing peers; modeled value is above 47% of peers by modeled value. Large capital with mid-pack modeled value can signal an issuer/program profile rather than operating-company growth.
Valuation reliability
Normal applicability
Stage/dilution valuation models are weakest when the issuer is broad-sector, recurring, or vehicle-like.
Operating evidence
Sparse
No clear CEO/founder/principal role is surfaced, so operating-company confidence is lower.
Data quality
Consistent
Canonical totals and visible filing detail are broadly aligned.
What triggered this
  • Legal name looks like an issuer vehicle rather than a product company.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2025: $4.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $4.0M on 2025-09-23.
How to read the page
  • Read this less like a startup funding journey and more like a capital-raising program.
  • Stage-based valuation and peer labels have lower applicability for this pattern.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

Explore how these operators interlock with other companies in the operator network.

Where it sits in Manufacturing

Stetson Steel LLC is one of 3257 Manufacturing companies tracked from ANAHEIM. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 63% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
$1M–$5M
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(c)
Reg D exemption
2021
Year incorporated
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$5.0M$10M$15M$20MSeed · 2025-09-23 Raised $4.0M (real) Modeled valuation $10M (est)$4.0M$10MSeed2025

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$4.0M · 2025

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$10.3M
Base estimate est.
$3.7M
Conservative case
$19.6M
Upside case
$20.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the manufacturing sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
41%
Survival probability
18% low · 63% high
1.35×/yr
Annual markup
1.77×/yr upside case
0.8 yr
Elapsed time used
0.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
manufacturing
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
0.8 yr
On record since
2025
First round
New
First-time filer
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 3257 companies in Manufacturing. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 2.0× above median
This company$4.0M
Sector median$2.0M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.5× above median
This company$4.0M
Sector median$1.6M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.9× of median
This company$10.3M
Sector median$12.0M

Raised more than 63% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 47% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Seed) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #5 of 81.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Enthos Circular Feed Technologies, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $11.9M (est)Cutsforth Capital Holdings, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $11.7M (est)SmartAuger, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $10.8M (est)AeroShield Materials, Inc. · Seed Raised $9.8M · modeled $10.4M (est)Aeon Industries LLC · Seed Raised $4.3M · modeled $10.2M (est)Pathfinder Spirit Inc · Seed Raised $7.5M · modeled $9.9M (est)Badger Bevs, LLC · Seed Raised $6.0M · modeled $9.8M (est)Sightline Services Holdings, LLC · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $9.7M (est)LumiTerra, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.8M · modeled $9.7M (est)Fourth Generation, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $9.5M (est)Tidal Flight, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.4M · modeled $8.7M (est)Stetson Steel LLC (this company) Raised $4.0M · modeled $10.3M (est)Stetson Steel LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Enthos Circular Feed Technologies, Inc.Seed$4.0M$11.9M2.63×
Cutsforth Capital Holdings, Inc.Seed$4.0M$11.7M2.57×
SmartAuger, Inc.Seed$3.5M$10.8M2.37×
AeroShield Materials, Inc.Seed$9.8M$10.4M2.29×
Stetson Steel LLC this companySeed$4.0M$10.3M2.26×
Aeon Industries LLCSeed$4.3M$10.2M2.24×
Pathfinder Spirit IncSeed$7.5M$9.9M2.18×
Badger Bevs, LLCSeed$6.0M$9.8M2.16×
Sightline Services Holdings, LLCSeed$3.2M$9.7M2.13×
LumiTerra, Inc.Seed$3.8M$9.7M2.12×
Fourth Generation, Inc.Seed$3.0M$9.5M2.08×
Tidal Flight, Inc.Seed$3.4M$8.7M1.91×
Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$4.0M2025-09-23$20.0M$10.3M90%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$4.0M2025-09-23
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$6.4M
Modeled next size est.range $4.2M$10.2M
Last step-up
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Key people & operators

Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Eyal Kotler1 other2025-09
Jeff David Nowlin2025-09
Registry & provenance

Stetson Steel LLC is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
2085722
SEC CIK
2021
Incorporated
Similar companies

Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
Cutsforth Capital Holdings, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$4.0M$11.7Msame sector · same stage
DiTropolis, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$4.0M$8.2Msame sector · same stage
Enthos Circular Feed Technologies, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$4.0M$11.9Msame sector · same stage
fenceRenu, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$4.0M$8.2Msame sector · same stage
Resource Partners IV, LLCManufacturingSeed$4.0M$8.2Msame sector · same stage
True Technology LLCManufacturingSeed$4.0M$8.2Msame sector · same stage
Vortex Seadrive Systems, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$4.0M$8.1Msame sector · same stage
Polymera, Inc.ManufacturingSeed$3.9M$10.7Msame sector · same stage
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Steribin LlcManufacturingPre-Seed$4.3M82%
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CT Steel HoldCo LLCManufacturingSeries A$22.8M80%
Metal Resources Holding CoManufacturingSeed$12.5M80%
Eagle Ste Automotive IncManufacturingSeries A$13.6M80%
Ironworks America, LLCManufacturingSeed$8.5M79%
Schrock Holdings, LLCManufacturingSeed$4.5M79%
Waltron Bull & Roberts, LLCManufacturingPre-Seed$13.7M79%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Stetson Steel LLC raised?
Stetson Steel LLC has raised approximately $4.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Stetson Steel LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Stetson Steel LLC is approximately $10.3M (modeled range $3.7M–$19.6M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Stetson Steel LLC at?
Stetson Steel LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Sep 23.
What does Stetson Steel LLC do and where is it based?
Stetson Steel LLC operates in the Manufacturing sector, based in ANAHEIM.
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